Faculty Job Resources
Faculty Job Search Resources
 http://www.academiccareers.com (Academic Careers Online)
 http://www.academploy.com (Academic Employment Network)
 http://www.acphysci.com/aps/app (Academic Physician/Scientist Postings)
 http://education.academickeys.com (Academic Job Information in Education)
 http://www.aera.net (American Educational Research Association)
 http://chronicle.com/jobs (Chronicle of Higher Education)
 http://www.ujobbank.com (University Job Bank - includes post-doc)
Faculty Curriculum Vita Information and Samples
 The Global Resume and CV Guide, by Mary Anne Thompson
 How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae, by Acy L. Jackson and C. Kathleen Geckeis
 The Curriculum Vitae Handbook: How to Present and Promote Your Academic Career by
Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe
 http://www.quintcareers.com/vita_samples.html (CV samples from medicine, science, arts)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/CVs%20and%20Cover%20Letters%2005-06.pdf (CV and cover letter handout with samples)
 http://chronicle.com/jobs/tools/cvdoctor/2006/ (CV advice and samples by industry)
 http://www.training.nih.gov/careers/careercenter/cv.html#acad (CV advice – general)
Faculty Cover Letter Samples
 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/639/02/ (English)
 http://www.jobbankusa.com/resumes/cover_letters_free_samples/examples_templates_formats/ac
ademic.html (Sociology)
 http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/academic/coverletters/SampleAcLetters.pdf (Classics,
History, Engineering, and Cell Biology)
 http://www.cgu.edu/pages/923.asp (By Stanford alum in humanities)
Teaching Statement Samples
 http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Philosophy.html (Various fields of study)
 http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/rogers/Teaching_Statement.htm (English)
 http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/sltcc/tipps/philosophy.html (Language departments)
 http://www.physics.uci.edu/~jeff/phil.html (Physics)
 http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/facultysuccess/professionalportfolios/philosophies.php (Social Science
and Business)
 http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ellard/pubs/teaching.pdf (Computer Science)
Teaching Portfolio Information and Samples
 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/billerb/ (Online example from Engineering)
 http://orion.math.iastate.edu/wagner/Teaching_Portfolio.html (Mathematics)
 http://www.science.smith.edu/~aguswa/TeachingStatement.pdf (Engineering)
 http://repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu/classes/port_mg.html (Engineering)
 http://www.et.eng.wayne.edu/ssemakula/portflio.htm (Engineering)
 http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/facultysuccess/professionalportfolios/PortfolioOutline.php (Outline)
 http://www.wsu.edu/provost/teaching.htm#INFORMAL (Social sciences departments)
 http://ctl.stanford.edu/handouts/PDF/teaching_portfolios.pdf (Teaching Portfolio tips - CTL)
Research Statement Information and Samples
 http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/~girod/official/girod-research-teaching-stmt.pdf (Ecology department; both
research/teaching)
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http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~davis/cv/JamesDavis_ResearchStatement.pdf (Anthropology)
http://www.engin.umich.edu/students/graduate/aces/researchstatment.pdf (Engineering)
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gera/Contact_Information_files/research_statement.pdf (Math)
http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/Dossier%20Preparation%2005-06.pdf (Advice for teaching/research statement preparation)
Faculty Job/Job Search Preparation Resources
 The Academic's Handbook by A. Leigh DeNeef (Editor), Craufurd D. Goodwin (Editor)
 The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
 Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis
 So You Want to Be a College Professor? by William Hayes
 Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty (The
Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Donald H. Wulff and Ann E. Austin
 Job Search In Academe: The Insightful Guide for Faculty Job Candidates by Dawn M. Formo and
Cheryl Reed
 Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color (The Greenwood Educators'
Reference Collection) by Mildred Garcia
 The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate
School through Tenure (Women in Culture and Society) by John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and
Penny Schine Gold
 http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.PFF3Manual.pdf (Preparing Future Faculty - science
and math manual)
 http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.PFF4Manual.htm (Preparing Future Faculty humanities and social sciences manual)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/Academic%20Job%20Search%2005-06.pdf (General academic job search handout)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/Community%20College%20Career%2005-06.pdf (Community college academic job
application guide)
Dual Academic Career Resources
 Dual-Career Couples: Keeping Them Together Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, Susan Twombly and
Suzanne Rice The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 71, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2000), pp. 291-321,
Ohio State University Press
 Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know, Michelle R. Clayman Institute
for Gender Research, Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/ResearchPrograms/DualCareer/DualCareerFinal.pdf
 Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Emily Toth, University of Pennsylvania Press,
Philadelphia, PA, 1997.
 Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In Becoming Established, and Building Institutional
Support, Robert J. Menges and Associates, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1999.
 Academic Couples: Problems and Promises, Marianne A. Farber and Jane W. Loeb (Eds.),
University of Illinois Press, Chicago, IL, 1997.
 Academic Motherhood: Managing Complex Roles in Research Universities:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v027/27.2ward.pdf
Questions? Stephanie K. Eberle, School of Medicine Career Center, seberle@stanford.edu
http://med.stanford.edu/careercenter/